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Water level low and clear. Fish easily spooked. Tails and heads of deeper pools most rewarding. Steady mayfly hatch but fish sipping emergers and blue winged olives towards evening. Only managed half the beat in 8hrs fishing.

20 Trout

New beat for me, good access to river but no fly life to speak of. Fished nymphs for trout to 12 inches. Hope to come back later and hope to fish dries as this beat looks full of potential. Fish to 12 inches all returned.

11 Trout

Glorious, weather, glorious river condition, glorious fly hatches of yellow mayfly, big sedges even a spinner fall around 6pm and not a fish moved all day. Nothing caught on extensive nymphing...weird!!!

River too high to wade comfortably, battled it for an hour.

After having day 2 of a 3 day trip rained off I decided to return to the small stream I'd been so impressed with on day 1 (Edw at Aberedw), which looked likely to be the only river in the area unaffected by the rain. It turned out to be a little coloured, but fishing well. I think the extra rain actually helped and there were plenty of fish spread throughout most of the pools, mainly hiding under overhanging branches or alongside the plentiful woody cover. Fished 9.00-18.00 and had about 12 to hand, mainly on large dries - DHE, caddis etc. As with day 1, could've been many more. Lots of insect life about - the river really is very healthy and just packed with young trout feeding aggressively. Had a brilliant day on what is probably the nicest piece of water I've ever seen.

12 Trout

No fish, twenty or so crayfish, hard work.

We were determined to have an evening on this beat in Mayfly time having already fished it earlier in the season. Looking at the webcams the Lugg system was possibly the only part of the catchment fishable on the day and the forecast predicted the houlie that had been blowing for the last 24 hours might subside - well it didn't until about 9.30! But that didn't stop a very pleasant couple of hours evening fishing. No visible hatch or rises early on and a significant chop on the river so minor tactics were implemented - mayfly skating! And very effective too in the shallower runs at the top of pools - 3 nice fish to 14" on this tactic and twice as many lost as the fly was usually downstream at the take. JB then homed in on his favourite run at last knockings - 10.00! - to take two more 14" ers on conventional drifting fly tactics. So that was 5 to hand on the evening - well worth the drive over. Water voles for company too and the full moon with spectacular moonbeams through the clouds on the drive home added to the trip. Many thanks to Wendy in the office for last minute booking - and the web cams along with the rainfall radar web site do make it possible to work out what is fishable with a degree of certainty.

5 Trout

Three double figure carp landed, 3 lost, largest 12lb 12oz. Carp caught on pellet. Lots of evidence of an abundance of small silver fish but difficult to catch as use of maggots is not permitted at this time of year. Great place to fish will come back again in the future.
WUF Note: The maggot restriction (June 16th to Sept 14th) only applies to the river Wye. Still waters do not fall under this byelaw.

3 Other

River a tad high, water a tad coloured, fish a tad absent, wind a tad strong. Great beat, shared with an otter.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling